Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #190

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #190 for the week April 18th – April 24th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

* Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
* Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks
* Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source
* Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris
* Farewell to the notification area
* New Ubuntu Members
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo Council Meeting
* Ubuntu’s success at Anime Boston 2010!
* LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu
* Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman
* Launchpad News
* Lucid Community Team Review
* Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks
* Ubuntu, the family album
* Ground Control 1.6 and Website
* Unleash the Beagles !!!
* 200 Artist/Designers!
* In The Press & In The Blogosphere
* Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity
* Ubuntu Weekly Videocast
* Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification
* Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging
* Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates and Security
* and much, much more

This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Amber Graner
* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Chris Johnston
* Liraz Siri
* J Scott Gwin
* Penelope Stowe
* And many others

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